It’s the story that’s burning up the web: Elizabeth Adeney is eight months pregnant at 66.

Over the weekend, British tabloids latched on to the news that the divorced businesswoman will be Britain's oldest mother. (She won't be the oldest mother on record – that distinction goes to… Read full post »

If you watch Jimmy Kimmel on a regular basis (I guess somebody must), or pay close attention to viral web comedy, you may have already seen the following video. On last night’s program, “Lost’s” Matthew Fox was one of Kimmel’s guests, and after some friendly banter, they… Read full post »

There’s been a lot of news on the gay marriage front in the past few weeks. First Iowa, and then Vermont have legalized it. As Vincent Rossmeier  wrote about in Salon’s War Room, a recent poll suggests that support for gay marriage may be on the dramatic increase (though, as Vincent… Read full post »

In today’s big pop culture video news, Lindsay Lohan made her way on to the “Ellen” show. I’m not entirely sure why she ended up on there-- it’s not like she’s got any movies to promote -- but it was a strangely poignant, disconcerting thing to watch. Not only did… Read full post »

(courtesy of Robyn Gallagher.)

One of our goals at Open Salon has been to help bloggers find the audiences they deserve. As the site continues to grow, we've been thrilled to see many of you do just that. Browsing through the most-viewed tabs on the cover, many of… Read full post »

Happy April 1st everybody! It’s the happiest day of the year – especially if getting instant messages from your friends telling you about the awesome Megadeth tattoo they got last night and then typing “April Fools!” makes you exceptionally happy. But pranks aren’t just… Read full post »

As if Detroit didn’t have enough to worry about. Today, India-based Tata Motors launches the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car. The small four-door has a 624cc two-cylinder engine with a maximum speed of 43 mph, a body made of sheet metal and plastic, manual steering and no airbag. Its… Read full post »

From today's Spiegel, a somewhat shocking news item as a German (uncreatively-named) brothel tries a new strategy to attract clients:

The city's "Pussy Club" has made headlines in the local press by giving clients unlimited access to all its ladies for €70, which includes an all-you-can-eat-and-… Read full post »

Every day, I walk past this bus-stop ad on my way home, and every day, I wonder: Are there really people in New York that think, "Gee, I'd really love to take that trip to Japan, if only it were more like Pleonk"?

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 There are inumerable ways that a long-running TV show can go wrong. It can go completely campy, a la "Weeds" third season. It can allow its central characters to consummate their tension-filled relationship, like "Gilmore Girls". It can literally jump the shark, like "Happy Days". Or it can do… Read full post »

It must have been rough night for Tim Mahoney, the incumbent House Representative for Florida's 16th District. Maybe it was the sex scandal, or the residency controversy, but, either way, the Democrat was the most dramatically defeated incumbent (from the House or the Senate) in last night's election… Read full post »

  The side-window view of the high point (literally) of my daily commute. 

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Those 9/11 conspiracy theorists may be annoying, but they're darn good at getting people's attention. At this point I've seen them all over the place --- on TV, heckling Bill Maher or Stephen Colbert, or picketing really random events. The first time I visited the World Trade Center site,… Read full post »

This week's most shocking story, thus far, undoubtedly comes from Austria. A 42-year-old woman in the city of Amstetten was discovered after having been locked in a dark cellar since the age of 19. Not only was her father, a former engineer in his seventies, responsible for her incarceration,/… Read full post »

It looks like it's been a rough week and a half for the Hannah Montana brand. First photos pop up of her flashing a bra, Perez Hilton starts an insulting poll about her virginity, and now she's being caught up in a media flap about a sort-of racy photo/… Read full post »